TRANSFER statment and CRLF

[Former Member]

Hello!

I'm using the following line in my program to write a row from an itab to a file:

OPEN DATASET gv_outbfile FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING NON-UNICODE MESSAGE lv_errmsg.

When I download the file to my PC I notice that there's only a LF (0A) character at the end of the line. My functional guy wants a CR/LF pair at the end of each row so it will display properly in Notepad. How can I get the CRLF on the end of each row?

[Former Member]

Hi,

CONCATENATE
      'Username'
      'Password'
      'First Name'
      'Last Name'
      'Group Code'
      'Location'
      'Email'
      'PersonnelNumber'
      'DepartmentName'
      'EVP'
      'EVP-1'
      'Function'
    cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF
    INTO lv_str

This statement will give you a carriage return at the end of line.

There are more attributes in the class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES like Line feed, Tab etc etc.

Amandeep

[Former Member]

I'm getting the CRLF alright but now the file is truncated. It's supposed to be exactly 195 (each row is).

So, I added LENGTH 195 to the TRANSFER statement and re-ran. This causes the text to wrap in Notepad.

[Former Member]

Try to open dataset in binary mode and transfer each line with crlf at the end

[former_member194669]

You need to check addition LINEFEED & SET in open dataset

DATA: file TYPE string VALUE 'test1.dat',
      pos  TYPE i,
      text TYPE string.

OPEN DATASET file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE
                             ENCODING DEFAULT
                             WITH SMART LINEFEED.

TRANSFER: 'Line1' TO file,
          'Line2' TO file,
          'Line3' TO file.

SET DATASET file POSITION 0.
READ DATASET file INTO text.
SET DATASET file POSITION END OF FILE.

TRANSFER: 'Line4' TO file,
          'Line5' TO file,
          'Line6' TO file.

CLOSE DATASET file.

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[Former Member]

I also found WITH WINDOWS LINEFEED which seems to work just fine. Any caveats with that one that you know of?

[former_member194669]

No

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